Weekend Update 11/26/17

[mu26aeh]

#1504 has left the paint booth.  Have some touch up work to do and we'll be ready for decals.

[Ed Kapuscinski]

@CodyO and I saw a lot of Amtrak on the NEC today.

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And some stuff that WASN'T Amtrak, but was pretending to be.

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[Joetrain59]

 I pine for seeing a G under wire again!
 Joe D

[Bendtracker1]

Ed, this photo is very striking to me!
I love the way the rails match the colors of the trackside shrubs and the leaves!
Nice catch and composition!

[daniel_leavitt2000]

The golden hour can do wonders for any photo.

[dougnelson]

Worked on a Railway Express facility.

[OldEastRR]

Yeah, I tried a couple searches but couldn't find it.  My memory says there's a commuter station to the upper left?

edit: Here's the location.  The map has a 2017 date on it.  I think it looked different when we had it here before.

https://goo.gl/maps/e5pVa1eZWiq


Jason

Isn't this called a scissors wye? For when it's not possible to extend a long tail track. I think the B&O used these in some places in Appalachia when the valley the track ran through was too narrow to put in a regular wye.

[Ed Kapuscinski]

The golden hour can do wonders for any photo.

In this case... golden hour == photoshop.

It was the challenge of shooting into the sun for half the trains, but butter living through technology allowed me to salvage what would've otherwise been junk.

[ai5629]

Worked on a Railway Express facility.

Very nice looking structure Doug.  What kit(s) did you use to build it?  I would guess DPM, but the windows and door appear to be separate parts, so I am not sure.  Atlas Middlesex Manufacturing?   Thanks.

Jeff

[trainforfun]

Catching up with photos of some recent projects.  First, Red River Models Ft. Worth Station kit which I am using to evoke the Merchandise Mart in Chicago. A truly massive and amazing kit made up of MDF and acrylic laser engraved parts.  My cell phone photos don't do justice to the fine details. I still need to decide on the sidewalk (I'll probably go with thinner Evergren sheet) and need to straighten that turret roof





The stuff on the roof is an interior window panel that needs to be glued back in.



Next up, Custom Model Railroad's Milwaukee Road Substation.  Laser cut acrylic with self-adhesive compressed paper details which were problematic.







An update on a twenty year-old project.  When I built the Marshall Field's Christmas windows  I cut holes above each window shadow box in hopes of lighting them someday.  That day finally came with the advent of the Woodland Scenics Just Plug LED lights.  I mounted one over each scene.  When I opened the building up to add the lights I was happily surprised to see that the clock was lighted and that I had coiled the leads inside the building when I first built it.





Bicycle, Christmas tree and doll house in the left window and a toy making machine in the right window.



Finally, a future project.  CMR announced a railroad lift bridge at Trainfest.  They emailed me a drawing which I blew up to the actual size of the kit.  It will replace the Walthers double track bridge
when it is released.

Roger these buildings are just incredible , museum quality !!!!!!!!

[dougnelson]

Very nice looking structure Doug.  What kit(s) did you use to build it?  I would guess DPM, but the windows and door appear to be separate parts, so I am not sure.  Atlas Middlesex Manufacturing?   Thanks.

Jeff

It's all DPM modulars except for the door and the awning. The windows come in the DPM kits.

[mightypurdue22]

Worked on several items over the holiday including tweaking layout design and industry placement, wiring (yuck!), and some ballasting samples.  Photo is of a single piece of Unitrack double track with differing applications of Arizona Rock and Highball ballasts.  Started with a spray bomb of Krylon Camo Brown spray paint over entire track and rails.  Finished with Bragdon weathering down the center of the track.  Needs at least one more app of touch up ballast and some oil stains.

[mightypurdue22]

It's all DPM modulars except for the door and the awning. The windows come in the DPM kits.

Doug - Is this painted at all or just a black wash on the brick?  Curious how you treated this as I have a few DPM modules to put together in the near future.

Dave

[dougnelson]

Doug - Is this painted at all or just a black wash on the brick?  Curious how you treated this as I have a few DPM modules to put together in the near future.

Dave

It is painted a light brick color and then treated with ink washes.  I tried doing a mortar treatment, but I did not like the results.  I may experiment more with that.  I will likely finish with some airbrush weathering.

[cbroughton67]

I dirtied-up some otherwise clean cars over the weekend. This was my favorite of the bunch.

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